Necktie-holder



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F. H. MXAM.

NECKTIB HOLDER. No. 602,562. P atentedAprg19,1898.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FRANK H. IWIAXAM, OF PRINCETON, INDIANA.

NECKTlE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 602,562, dated April 19, 1898.

Application led September 29, 1897. Serial No. 653 ,515. @I0 modem T 0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK lI. MAXAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Princeton, in the county of Gibson and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Necktie-Holders; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention bas relation to necktie-holders; and among its objects is to provide a device of this character which may be easily attached and detached and which will securely retain a necktie in its adjusted position.

With this object in view the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts,which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

, In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a View of a collar and a portion of a shirtfront, showing in dotted lines a string tie and in full lines the holder which is arranged to hold a string tie and is engaged with the collar and collar-button. Fig. 2 is a front View of the holder removed. Fig. 3 is an edge View, and Fig. 4: is a top view.

In the drawings, 1 denotes the spring clamping-jaws, provided with a hook 2 at the rear of said jaws, operating handles 3, which carry piercing-points 4. ln attaching the device the operating-handles are depressed and the bow of the tie is raised slightly above the collar-button, so that the hook may be engaged with the lower edge of the collar and the spring-jaws with the shank of the collarbutton. After this has been done the bow of the tie is lowered to its proper position, and by compressing said operating-handles the piercing-points will be separated, allowing the bow of the tie to be pierced by the prongs, which will hold them in position. By attaching the fastening at two points-that is, by attaching it to the collar-button and to the collar-all tendency of the fastener to shift or become disarranged is entirely obviated.

Inl the accompanying drawings I have shown the form preferred embodying my invention, illustrating the fastener as being made of a single piece of wire; but it is evident that the device may be constructed-of other material and made in different shapes and forms without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, 1s-

1. A necktie-holder, consisting of springjaws,piercingpoints and handles which when compressed will separate the jaws, and the piercing-points, substantially as set forth.

2. A necktie holder, consisting -of the spring-jaws, the piercing-points, the handles for simultaneously separating the jaws and the piercing-points, and a hook at the rear of the spring-jaws, substantially as set forth.

3. A necktie holder, consisting of the spring-jaws and the handles which are provided with coacting piereingpoints, and a hook arranged at the rear of the spring-jaws, t-he said parts being formed of a single piece of wire, substantially as set fort-h.

In testimony whereof I hereunto ax my Asignature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK H. MAXAM. lVitnesses:

HENRY A. YEAGEE, DAVID CALHOUN. 

